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OCR: GALL BLADDER OUR GALL BLADDER is a small, muscular sac that lies underneath your liver. Every day, the liver produces almost 1 litre (13/4 pints) of greenish liquid called bile Your gall bladder stores up to 60 ml (1/10 pint) of this bile until muscles in the wall of the gall bladder force through tube into the small intestine. Once there bile helps to digest any fats that are contained in podd Bile Is conce entrated in the gall l bladder as water iS removed from it through the gall bladder lining Bile leaving the gall bladder may be ten times as strong as the bile entering 7OUR cont pddd concentrated